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Footnotes
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- https://cubacenter.org/cuba-brief-archives/2024/03/07/cubabrief-how-communist-central-planning-creates-shortages-of-flour-and-milk-in-cuba-today-2/
- https://www.cato.org/blog/cubas-self-induced-crisis-may-be-its-worst-yet
- https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/caribbean
- https://tradingeconomics.com/cuba/exports
- https://ics.fiu.edu/_assets/docs/cuba-economic-crisis.pdf
- https://translatingcuba.com/eight-independent-economists-comment-on-the-effects-of-the-us-sanctions-on-cuba/
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- The college has been secularized, and the government now operates as the Universidade de Évora.
- All quotations in this article use the 1905 version of Father F. X. Schouppe’s Purgatory, published in Great Britain by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd. It is in the public domain and available through the Internet Archive. The spellings of certain words were Americanized by the author.
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuit order.
- https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/FH_TransnationalRepressionReport2021_rev020221_CaseStudy_China.pdf
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/05/china-overseas-students-face-harassment-and-surveillance-in-campaign-of-transnational-repression/
- https://www.voanews.com/a/anti-xi-jinping-protesters-say-sf-police-ignored-beatings-during-apec-/7367899.html
- https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-targets/
- https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2025/06/new-report-details-beijings-targeting-of-protestors-abroad/
- https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/14-governments-launch-investigations-chinese-110-overseas-police-service-stations
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/private-investigator-sentenced-prison-interstate-stalking-and-harassment-chinese-nationals
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-on-hong-kong-national-security-law-arrest-warrants
- https://www.cecc.gov/publications/commission-analysis/report-prcs-transnational-repression-and-malign-influence-2025
- https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2025/06/new-report-details-beijings-targeting-of-protestors-abroad/
- All quotations in this article use the 1905 version of Father F. X. Schouppe’s Purgatory, published in Great Britain by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd. It is in the public domain and available through the Internet Archive. The spellings of certain words were Americanized by the author.